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How does Gulliver reach the flying island of Laputa?

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Illustration of Lemuel Gulliver lying on the ground, tied down by tiny Lilliputians, with crowds and small buildings in the background, from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. — Gulliver’s Travels Lemuel Gulliver in Lilliput, illustration from an edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

In the third part of Gulliver’s Travels, Lemuel Gulliver reaches the flying island of Laputa after being set adrift by pirates.1